Norfolk Bookworm

  That Librarian by Amanda Jones (Bloomsbury USA) I've always been interesting in the concept of book banning as it is a phenomenon I di...

  My scratch off map is becoming far more colourful and my reading life is really expanding. While I am reading a lot of books in translatio...

  My Pen is the Wing of A Bird - by 18 Afghan Women with various translators. (Quercus) In my quest to read a book set in every country in t...

  Well we all knew that the regular posts and reviews from the start of the year wouldn't last but I didn't mean to let nearly 2 mon...

  The Eights by Joanna Miller (Penguin Books Ltd.) Wow! What a book. I can't remember the last time I stayed up past midnight because I ...

  The Wager and the Bear by John Ironmonger (Fly On the Wall Press) Greenland has been in the news a lot lately but not because of the polar...

  Agent Zo by Clare Mulley (Orion Publishing) & The CIA Book Club by Charlie English (HarperCollins) Thanks to the Women's Prize for...

  Books About Books - my kryptonite. I love books about books - whether its the history of books and publishing, the history of printing, au...

  The Green Kingdom by Cornelia Funke & Tammi Hartung (illustrated by Melissa Castrillon) Dorling Kindersely. Right now the world feels ...

  The Women's Prize for Fiction 2025. Hot on the heels of the non fiction longlist the 2025 Women's Prize for fiction longlist will ...

  The Prosecutor by Jack Fairweather (Ebury Publishing) While I have read a few books in the past couple of weeks most of them have been ok ...

  With the way the world is going right now haunting news sites early in the morning doesn't seem to be the best way to start the day, h...

  Between Two Rivers: Ancient Mesopotamia and the Birth of History by Moudhy Al-Rashid (Hodder and Stoughton) After reading Elif Shafak'...

  Just My Type by Simon Garfield (Profile Books) Last year I read two of Garfield's shorter books about specific fonts and found them fa...

  Poor Girls by Clare Whitfield (Bloomsbury Books) I had this book marked as a February release and so had been saving it for a New Year rea...

  Holocaust Memorial Day 2025 and some recently read books. While I was poorly I made an effort to read some of the physical books that I ha...

  What you are looking for is in the library by Michiko Aoyama, translated by Alison Watts (Transworld) Before Christmas I took part in an o...

  The Baby Dragon Cafe by A T Qureshi (Harper Collins) Having been felled by a cold that morphed into a chest and sinus infection over the p...

  The Artist by Lucy Steeds (John Murray Press) Wow - two weeks into 2025 and I am still keeping on top of my vague bookish resolution with ...

  The Life of Herod the Great by Zora Neale Hurston (HQ - Harper Collins) Keeping on top of my vague 2025 plan and reviewing another NetGall...